Jorge Ben

This album is the second of the studio recordings by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 with A & M Records label, and is certainly one of the top of his production. Composers like Jorge Ben, Michel Legrand, Joao Gilberto, Cole Porter and Antonio Carlos Jobim bring creations that are splendidly arranged by Sergio Mendes, who can find fused arrangements between pop and jazz, wrapped by the great Brazilian rhythms, bossa nova and samba. Mendes offers a very personal sound, in which rhythm, melody and rich harmonies create a soft sophisticated atmosphere with its warm emotions.

Rare album by the great French arranger and conductor Paul Mauriat, the musician who arranged most music of his era, particularly pop style. In this album dedicated to the music of Brazilian authors the arrangements are enriched with orchestrations with strings and percussion and accompanying instruments adorning effectively harmony melodies. This album features a collection with recordings that were already previously published by Mauriat (1967, 1973 and 1974). The remainder items were recorded in 1977, from authors such as Benito di Paula, Totonho, Caetano Veloso, Cavaquinho, Jorge Ben and Chico Buarque among others.

Hearing tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander is one of the great treats in jazz. There are few artists on stage today who combine chops, imagination and technique with a fluidity of ideas as he does. This imposing improviser is reunited here with pianist David Hazeltine and they're joined by another jazz great, the always daring trumpeter Jon Faddis on a couple of the tracks. Add in the swing engendered by bassist John Webber and drummer Joe Farnsworth and you have a formula for excellence, if ever there was one. Alexander produced the session and there is a strong latin feel throughout thanks to the contributions of vibrant percussionist Alex Diaz spurring the band on with a whole trunk load of Latin percussion instruments. In addition to the Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 title tune, the set-list features a satisfying mix of originals and covers all given the patented Alexander treatment.

Feliciano! is a 1968 album by Puerto Rican guitarist José Feliciano. All of the tracks are acoustic cover versions of songs popularized by other artists, including The Mamas & the Papas, The Doors, Gerry & the Pacemakers, The Beatles, Jorge Ben Jor, and Lou Johnson…

Gilberto Gil - Coleção Obras-Primas (1997) {PolyGram Brasil ‎532 678-2}
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© 1997 PolyGram Brasil ‎| 532 678-2
Jazz / Brazilian Jazz / Música popular brasileira / Brazilian Traditions / Brazilian Pop

I knew that music was my language, really. That music was going to take me to know the world, was going to take me to other lands. Why I thought I had the music of the earth and the music of the sky. ” Gil, about his childhood in the city where he lived, in the interior of Bahia, where he ran to the sound of the first clarinet of the Band, which started the celebrations of the patron saint and seemed to invade everything.